Actual and adjusted gross wage ratio in NRW

Definition: The wage ratio is often used to describe the functional income distribution of national income. The actual gross wage ratio denotes the proportion of compensation received, including all wage cost components (e.g. employers’ social security contributions, voluntary social benefits and wealth benefits), in national income. In addition to the actual gross wage ratio, a structurally adjusted gross wage ratio is often calculated. It keeps the share of employees from a base year, here in 2000, constant in order to minimise the effect of changes in the employment structure over time. The employment rate is the percentage of employees (depending on employees) of the total workforce. Note: A general audit was carried out in 2014. This mainly served to introduce the new European System of Accounts (ESA 2010) across Europe. ESA 2010 is based on the global new System of National Accounts (SNA 2008) and replaced the previous ESA 1995. Data source: Working Group on National Accounts of the Länder